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“The sense of an ending” by Julian Barnes “Tony Webster and his clique first met Adrian Finn at school. Sex-hungry and book-hungry, they would navigate the girl-less sixth form together, trading in affectations, in-jokes, rumour and wit. Maybe Adrian was a little more serious than the others, certainly more intelligent, but they all swore to
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“The quiet American “ by Graham Greene “Into the intrigue and violence of Indo-China comes Pyle, a young idealistic American sent to promote democracy through a mysterious ‘Third Force’. As his naive optimism starts to cause bloodshed, his friend Fowler, a cynical foreign correspondent, finds it hard to stand aside and watch. But even as
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“The return of the native” by Thomas Hardy “One of Thomas Hardy’s most powerful works, The Return of the Native centers famously on Egdon Heath, the wild, haunted Wessex moor that D. H. Lawrence called «the real stuff of tragedy.» The heath’s changing face mirrors the fortunes of the farmers, inn-keepers, sons, mothers, and lovers
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“The vagrant mood: six essays” by W. Somerset Maugham “The Vagrant Mood is a brilliantly varied and colourful collection of essays. From Kant to Raymond Chandler; from the legend of Zurbaran to the art of the detective story; from Burke to Augustus Hare, Somerset Maugham brings his inimitable mastery of the incisive
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“The ha-ha” by Jennifer Dawson “A first novel deals with the frangible world of the schizophrenic with exceptional imaginative skill, so that its fragmentation of intense perceptions, its flickering images and private voices, all have a sometimes terrifying, sometimes wonderful, awareness and acuteness.” Extraído de kirkusreviews. http://www.madnessandliterature.org/literature.php?id=33&resultpage=1 http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/2000/oct/26/guardianobituaries.books http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jennifer_Dawson Los títulos seleccionados son una muestra
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“Buxton Spice” by Oonya Kempadoo “Told in the voice of a girl as she moves from childhood into adolescence, Buxton Spice is the story the town of Tamarind Grove: its eccentric families, its sweeping joys, and its sudden tragedies. The novel brings to life 1970s Guyana-a world at a cultural and political crossroads-and perfectly captures
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“The book thief” by Markus Zusak “HERE IS A SMALL FACT – YOU ARE GOING TO DIE. 1939. Nazi Germany. The country is holding its breath. Death has never been busier. Liesel, a nine-year-old girl, is living with a foster family on Himmel Street. Her parents have been taken away to a concentration camp. Liesel
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“Elephants can remember” by Agatha Christie “With the help of Detective Poirot, mystery writer Ariadne Oliver must solve a murder from her past–before the tragic piece of history repeats itself.” Extraído de Amazon. Ver además: http://www.harpercollins.com/browseinside/index.aspx?isbn13=9780062074034 http://agathachristie.com/story-explorer/stories/elephants-can-remember/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elephants_Can_Remember Los títulos seleccionados son una muestra de los materiales de la Biblioteca del Instituto Internacional prestados recientemente.
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“This year it will be different and other stories: a Christmas treasury” by Maeve Binchy “In the world of Binchy’s stories, the holiday season often becomes a time to plan and calculate, instead of letting events take care of themselves, as they do in ordinary time.” Extraído de Bookrags. Ver además: http://books.google.es/books/about/This_Year_It_Will_Be_Different.html?id=PQpMrsuqVIAC&redir_esc=y http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maeve_Binchy Los títulos
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“The love of a good woman” by Alice Munro “In the world of Alice Munro, the best route is not necessarily the shortest distance between two points. In her ninth superlative collection of short fiction, The Love of a Good Woman, the setting is once again western Canada, and the subject matter is classic Munro: